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Exodus 7

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1 Ja Issand ütles Moosesele: 'Vaata, ma panen sind vaaraole jumalaks ja su vend Aaron olgu sulle prohvetiks.

2 Sina räägi kõik, mida ma sind käsin, ja su vend Aaron rääkigu vaaraole, et ta laseks Iisraeli lapsed oma maalt ära minna.

3 Aga mina teen kõvaks vaarao südame ja teen palju imetegusid ja tunnustähti Egiptusemaal.

4 Vaarao ei kuula teid, aga mina panen oma käe Egiptuse vastu ja viin oma väehulgad, oma rahva, Iisraeli lapsed Egiptusemaalt välja suurte nuhtluste abil.

5 Ja Egiptus peab tundma, et mina olen Issand, kui ma sirutan oma käe Egiptuse kohale ja viin Iisraeli lapsed nende keskelt välja!'

6 Ja Mooses ja Aaron tegid nõnda; nagu Issand neid oli käskinud, nõnda nad tegid.

7 Mooses oli kaheksakümmend aastat vana ja Aaron oli kaheksakümmend kolm aastat vana, kui nad vaaraoga rääkisid.

8 Ja Issand rääkis Moosese ja Aaroniga, öeldes:

9 'Kui vaarao räägib teiega ja ütleb: Tehke mõni tunnustäht!, siis ütle Aaronile: Võta oma kepp ja viska vaarao ette, siis see muutub maoks!'

10 Siis Mooses ja Aaron läksid vaarao juurde ja tegid nõnda, nagu Issand oli käskinud. Aaron viskas oma kepi vaarao ja ta sulaste ette ja see muutus maoks.

11 Aga vaaraogi kutsus targad ja nõiad, ja Egiptuse võlurid tegid oma salakunstidega ka sedasama:

12 igaüks neist viskas oma kepi maha ja need muutusid madudeks; aga Aaroni kepp neelas nende kepid ära.

13 Ja vaarao süda jäi kõvaks ja ta ei kuulanud neid, nagu Issand oli öelnud.

14 Siis Issand ütles Moosesele: 'Vaarao süda on kalk, ta keeldub rahvast ära laskmast.

15 Mine hommikul vaarao juurde, kui ta läheb vee äärde, ja astu temale vastu Niiluse jõe ääres. Võta kätte kepp, mis muutus maoks,

16 ja ütle temale: Issand, heebrealaste Jumal, on mind läkitanud sinu juurde, et ma ütleksin: Lase mu rahvas minna ja mind kõrbes teenida! Aga vaata, sa ei ole senini kuulda võtnud.

17 Seepärast ütleb Issand nõnda: Sellest sa tunned, et mina olen Issand: vaata, ma löön kepiga, mis mul käes on, jõe vett, ja see muutub vereks.

18 Kalad jões surevad ja jõgi hakkab haisema, nõnda et egiptlased jõest vett juues tunnevad tülgastust.'

19 Ja Issand ütles Moosesele: 'Ütle Aaronile: Võta oma kepp ja siruta käsi egiptlaste vete kohale, nende jõgede, kanalite, tiikide ja kõigi veekogude kohale, et need muutuksid vereks. Siis on kogu Egiptusemaal veri, niihästi puu- kui kiviastjais.'

20 Ja Mooses ja Aaron tegid nõnda, nagu Issand oli käskinud. Ta tõstis kepi üles ning lõi Niiluse jõe vett vaarao ja ta sulaste silma ees, ja kõik vesi jões muutus vereks.

21 Ja kalad jões surid, jõgi haises ja egiptlased ei saanud jõest vett juua; ja veri oli kogu Egiptusemaal.

22 Aga Egiptuse võlurid tegid oma salakunstidega sedasama. Ja vaarao süda jäi kõvaks ning ta ei kuulanud neid, nagu Issand oli öelnud.

23 Ja vaarao pöördus ümber ning läks oma kotta ega võtnud ka seda südamesse.

24 Aga kõik egiptlased kaevasid Niiluse jõe ümbruses joogivett otsides, sest nad ei saanud jõe vett juua.

25 Möödus seitse päeva Niiluse jõe löömisest Issanda poolt.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 405

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405. And a third of the living creatures in the sea died. (8:9) This symbolically means that those who had lived that faith and continued to live it could not be reformed and receive life.

A third symbolizes all such, as said above. Creatures mean people who can be reformed (no. 290). The reason is that to create means, symbolically, to reform (no. 254). Their living means, symbolically, to be able by reformation to receive life. That they died means, symbolically, that people who live that faith alone cannot receive life. They cannot, because people are all reformed by a faith united to charity, thus by a faith accompanying charity, and none by faith alone; for charity is the life of faith.

[2] Since in the spiritual world the affections and consequent perceptions and thoughts of spirits and angels appear at a distance in the forms of animals or creatures on the earth called beasts, of creatures in the air called birds, and of creatures in the sea called fish, therefore the Word so often mentions beasts, birds, and fish, which nevertheless have precisely the meaning stated. So for example in the following places:

...Jehovah has a quarrel with the inhabitants of the land, for there is no truth or mercy or knowledge of God... And everyone who dwells in it will waste away along with the beast of the field and the bird of the air; even the fish of the sea will be gathered up. (Hosea 4:1, 3)

I will consume man and beast..., the bird of the heavens, the fish of the sea, ...the stumbling blocks along with the impious... (Zephaniah 1:3)

There shall be a great earthquake in the land of Israel, and the fish of the sea, the bird of the heavens, and the beast of the field... shall tremble before Me. (Ezekiel 38:18-20)

You have made Him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet... the beasts of the fields, the bird of the air, and the fish of the sea that pass through the path of the seas. (Psalms 8:6-8)

The latter is said of the Lord.

Pray ask the beasts, and they will teach you; or the birds of the air, and they will inform you...; and the fish of the sea will tell you. Who of all these does not know that the hand of Jehovah has done this? (Job 12:7-9)

And in many other places as well.

[3] Fish, moreover, and creatures of the sea, as they are called here, mean the affections and consequent thoughts of such people as are concerned with general truths, and so who take more from a natural source than from a spiritual one. These people are meant by fish in the preceding passages, and also in the following ones:

By My rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness; their fish stink... and die of thirst. (Isaiah 50:2)

...the king of Egypt, a great whale, you who lie in the midst of your rivers, you said, "The river is mine; I made myself..".. (Therefore) I will cause the fish of your rivers to stick to your scales..., and I will leave you in the wilderness, you and all the fish of your rivers. (Ezekiel 29:3-5)

This was addressed to the king of Egypt, because Egypt symbolizes the natural level divorced from the spiritual one, and so the fish of his rivers mean people governed by doctrines, who because of them are caught up in faith separated from charity, a faith that is simply knowledge.

Because of that separation, moreover, one of the miracles in Egypt was the turning of their waters into blood, so that the fish died (Exodus 7:17-25, Psalms 105:29).

[4] Furthermore:

Why do You make mankind like fish of the sea...? Everyone draws them up with a hook, and gathers them in a net... (Habakkuk 1:14-16)

Fish here stand for people concerned with general truths and caught up in faith divorced from charity. In contrast, fish stand for people concerned with general truths and governed by a faith conjoined with charity in Ezekiel:

He said to me: "These waters flowing to the eastern boundary... enter the sea, (from which comes) every living soul that creeps... and very much fish... ...fishermen will stand by it... with a spreading of their nets. Its fish will be of the same kinds as the fish of the Great Sea, exceedingly many. (Ezekiel 47:1, 8-10)

In Matthew:

(Jesus said,) the kingdom of heaven is like a net cast into the sea, and they gathered (fish).... And they put the good ones into vessels and threw the bad away. (Matthew 13:47-49)

And in Jeremiah:

I will bring (the children of Israel) back into their land... And I will send for many fishermen...(who) shall fish them. (Jeremiah 16:15-16)

[5] Consequently, anyone who knows that fish symbolize people and things of the kind stated, can see the following: Why the Lord chose fishermen to be His disciples, and said,

Come after Me, and I will make you fishers of men. (Matthew 4:18-19)

Why the disciples, with the Lord's blessing, caught a huge multitude of fish, and the Lord said to Peter,

Do not be afraid. From now on you will catch men. (Luke 5:2-10)

Why, when they wished to exact tribute from the Lord, He told Peter to go to the sea and draw out a fish, and to give them the coin found in it for Him and for himself (Matthew 16:24-27).

Why, after His resurrection, the Lord gave His disciples fish and bread to eat (John 21:2-13).

And why He told them to "go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature" (Mark 16:15). For the nations they were converting possessed only general truths, and were concerned more with natural things than spiritual ones.

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.

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Psalms 8:6-8

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6 You make him ruler over the works of your hands. You have put all things under his feet:

7 All sheep and cattle, yes, and the animals of the field,

8 The birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, and whatever passes through the paths of the seas.